འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 44

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very intrinsic naturelessness, the selflessness of phenomena, tathatā, which is the object of observation of purification, is the thoroughly established characteristic. Relying upon that, the Bhagavān designates one among those very intrinsic naturelessnesses of the ultimate of phenomena. Just as it is for the aggregate of form, so it should be applied to the remaining aggregates as well. Just as it is for the aggregates, so it is for each of the twelve sense bases. So it should be done for each of the twelve limbs of existence. So it is for each of the four foods. So it is for each of the six constituents and the eighteen constituents. Bhagavān, I understand the meaning spoken by the Bhagavān in this way: that which is the designation of names and conventions—as the characteristic of an intrinsic nature or the characteristic of a particularity—such as 'the truth of suffering' and 'the truth of suffering is fully known,' on the conditioned marks that are the basis of the imputed characteristic, which is the domain of conceptual construction—that is the imputed characteristic. Relying upon that, the Bhagavān designates the intrinsic naturelessness of characteristics of phenomena. That which is the conditioned mark that is the basis of the imputed characteristic, the domain of conceptual construction, is the other-dependent characteristic. Relying upon that, the Bhagavān designates the intrinsic naturelessness of arising of phenomena, and also designates one among those [aspects of] the intrinsic naturelessness of the ultimate. Bhagavān, I understand the meaning spoken by the Bhagavān in this way: that very conditioned mark, the basis of the imputed characteristic, the domain of conceptual construction, is not fully established as that imputed characteristic, and lacks an intrinsic nature; that